Unmentioned until the penultimate paragraph of
Politico's write up of this story:
Actual shooter Jared Loughner. The deadly incident was an unspeakable atrocity, and we're all extremely thankful that Mr. Fuller survived his wounds. But despite his position of 'Ultimate Moral Authority' as a victim, his
statements are not above reproach. One has to be fanatically wedded to a political ideology to lay blame for
one's own shooting at the feet of people who had absolutely nothing to do with it.
In all fairness to Mr. Fuller, perhaps his prolonged hospitalization caused him to miss reports that (a) the shooter was mentally deranged and
largely apolitical, (b) Rep. Giffords is an
ardent supporter of the Second Amendment, to which he ascribes partial responsibility for the massacre, (c) the shooter
detested President Bush, believed current US military efforts constitute war crimes, and was both a militant atheist and 9/11 truther. Fuller will be hard-pressed to apply any of those positions to Palin, Boehner, Beck, et al.
It's also entirely possible that Mr. Fuller is aware of some, or all, of these facts, but chose to launch his slanderous invective anyway. Either way, the contrast between his unfortunate response to the shootings, and the classy -- even heroic --
reaction of young Christina Green's family, could not be starker.
